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ReutersPachauri patiently rebuts bias chargesFri Oct 12, 2007 2:14pm EDT
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO (Reuters) - "Pass me the microphone when
he's finished, please," Rajendra Pachauri leant over
and asked me after a U.S. skeptic accused his U.N.
climate panel of exaggerating the threat of global
warming.
Pachauri, an Indian scientist who heads the panel
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday with
ex-U.S. Vice President Al Gore, had just been
accused at U.N. talks in Nairobi of failing to
reply to a letter from U.S. Republican Sen. James
Inhofe.
-snip-Inhofe, who once famously said the threat of
catastrophic climate change was "the greatest
hoax ever perpetrated on the American people",
has been sharply critical of the IPCC. At the
time, November 2006, he was the outgoing
chairman of the Committee on Environment and
Public Works.
A few days later Pachauri sent an e-mail to Morano,
which he also copied to me and to Paal Prestrud,
a Norwegian climate scientist who arranged the
debate, and attached a letter replying to Inhofe
dated December 24, 2005.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL128894720071012